It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
ALAN BENNETTSometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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